At a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill last week, superintendents from San Francisco, Chicago, and Virginia's Loudoun County defended the practice of allowing male students to use girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, and visa-versa.
Missouri Congressman Bob Onder (R) asked Superintendent and CEO Macquline King, "Is it the policy of Chicago Public Schools to forbid biological men, boys, to go into locker rooms with biologic girls?"
"The Chicago Public Schools policy is in alignment with Illinois law," King replied, not directly answering the question.
Her district's policy bases facility usage on a student's so-called "gender identity" rather than biology.
Abby Platt, a parent in Virginia whose child has been traumatized by such policies, recently told Fox News this has to stop.
"This is a longstanding problem," she said. "Everybody knows Loudoun County is the epicenter, ground zero for big-time problems, and we've had enough."
In 2021, two separate incidents involving a male student in Loudoun County served as a flashpoint in the national debate over school policies on gender identity and facility access.
First at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, a 15-year-old female student was sexually assaulted in a girls' restroom by the male student who was wearing a skirt.
Later that year at neighboring Broad Run High School, the same student committed a second assault against a different female student in a high school restroom.
Platt pointed out that her school district actually punished other children who complained about the sexual trauma they were forced to endure.
"The superintendent, the district, they do retaliate, and we saw that a year ago with those Loudoun boys who were filmed in their own locker room," she noted. "They were suspended, and the school came after them so viciously."
America First Legal attorney Ian Prior says Aaron Spence, superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools, lied at the congressional hearing about why boys are allowed in the girls' rooms; Spence said federal law requires it, but that argument has failed in federal court.
